"Величайшим бременем, выпадающим на долю детей, является непрожитая жизнь их родителей". Джеймс Холлис

"Дети охотно всегда чем нибудь занимаются. Это весьма полезно, а потому не только не следует этому мешать, но нужно принимать меры к тому, чтобы всегда у них было что делать". Ян Коменский

"Взрослые слишком часто живут рядом с миром детей, не пытаясь понять его. А ребёнок между тем пристально наблюдает за миром своих родителей; он старается постичь и оценить его; фразы, не осторожно произнесенные в присутствии малыша, подхватываются им, по-своему истолковываются и создают определённую картину мира".

"Если Вы хотите вырастить хороших детей, тратьте на них в два раза меньше денег и в два раза больше времени". Эстер Селсдон

"Самый лучший возраст у детей, это когда вы уже не водите их за руку, а они ещё не водят вас за нос".

"Вы не задумывались, сколько дети дарят родителям? Любовь, самую настоящую, радость, надежду... Как часто рядом с ребёнком мы чувствуем себя умными, всесильными... Ребёнок дарит нам чувство собственной значимости".

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

In the beginning, you know, everyone told me, 'Your eyes are too small, the nose is too big, you can never be on a magazine cover.' But, you know what? The big nose is coming with a big personality.

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

It is better to get married with the mindset that you are going to give rather than get.

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Basketball is the MTV of sports.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

Napoleon's plan was for his army to arrive in Egypt not as conquerors but liberators. Landing in Aboukir Bay on July 1, 1798, the French captured Alexandria the next day, overcoming the surprised Mamelukes - the despotic local rulers - with a combination of modern artillery and infantry tactics.